Skin Name: Zenlike

Version: eFiction 3.0

Developer: Sally Anderson (Lazuli)

License: Free to use, so long as the credit in the footer remains intact.

Feel free to edit, modify, or alter this skin in any way. Doing so will not offend, upset, or bother me in any way. All I ask is that you please keep the footer crediting the photographer and brush artist intact unless you completely remove that part of the header graphic.

Description: Zenlike is a slightly oriental themed skin colored white and pale green. This is a very lightweight skin that uses NO custom header graphics. Everything is based on CSS text, font, and background effects.

Note: Since 3.0 isn’t out yet, this skin may not be entirely up-to-date. I will try to have it updated as soon as possible, but with my college schedule, I can’t make any guarantees.

Demo: Demo @ eFiction.org

Download: zenlike.zip (Updated: 3 March 2007)

Excuse me while I “squee!” in geekish glee/delight.

One problem in eFiction is that the display order for the categories occasionally gets messed up. I gave up trying to fix them by hand a long time ago and just had Jasson give me a cheap and dirty work-around.

Well, tonight I came up with a solution all on my own. Sorry, this gets pretty geeky from here on out.

I made a query to the database, asking for all the subcategories in alphabetical order. I then created a while loop that took those 337 results and wrote SQL update statements for me. I offset the count by 9, since I don’t want to reorder the main categories since they’re okay right as they are.

And boom! 337, neat little MySQL update statements that reordered the categories for me. ^_^

There are times where I look at all the designs other people are doing and feel decidely inferior. This just suddenly made me realize just how far I’ve come and how much I’ve learned.

And it feels very good. ♥

Description: Displays the last date your users visited your eFiction site.

As always my line numbers are approximate and meant to put you in the general ballpark. They will likely change as you progress through the mod.

Requirements: eFiction 3.2 or later

Difficulty: Easy

Mod History:
- 27 February, 2007, Marohi added mod to Test site, bug checking begins
- 1 March, 2007, Posted to eFiction forums
- 2 March, 2007, Fixed cookie issue, added language to en.php, changed mysql_query to dbquery

Files Involved:

• user/login.php
• user/profile.php
• includes/get_session_vars.php
• languages/en.php
• skins/YOUR SKIN/profile.tpl
• database modification

Modification & Support Link: eFiction.org

Instructions:

Name: 10 Most Popular Categories Panel

Description: Returns the top ten most popular categories on your eFiction site along with a count to show how many stories each category has.

Requirements: eFiction 3.2 or later

Mod History:
- 27 February, 2007 — Converted to eFiction 3.0
- 03 March, 2007 — Released to the public
- 03 March, 2007 — Fixed category links

Demo: http://test.lunaescence.com/toplists.php?list=popularcats

Download Link: popularcat.zip